DISTEMPER. 13 



Treatment the same as for diarrhoea, with larger doses of opium when 

 the pain is violent. Keep the horse and stable clean, and give the horse 

 good care. Do not be concerned about the bowels if they do not move at 

 all for several days. 



DISTEMPER.— (Strangles.) This form of sore throat is characterized 

 by swelling between the bones of the lower jaw, which terminates in an 

 abscess. 



Cause. — A specific poison in the 

 blood, which but few horses escape. 

 Treatment. — The opinions of 

 different veterinarians vary in re- 

 gard to the treatment, some recom- 

 mending poultices while others 

 forbid it, etc., but the following 

 plan is undoubtedly as good a one 

 as any. 



Give grass or soft feed and but 



STRANGLES. little, if any, medicine, and if 



thought best to do anything to 



hasten the suppuration apply warm poultices, or some like blistering. The 



appetite will return when the abscess breaks or is opened. 



EPIZOOTIC. — This disease attacks many animals at the same time, and 

 originates in one common cause. 



Treatment. — A few years ago, when nearly every horse in the country had 

 this disease, hundreds were either not treated at all or improperly treated, 

 and consequently many were left in a bad condition, which they did not 

 outgrow for months, and others died for want of proper treatment. At 

 this time I Avas called upon to prescribe for many, and I soon found that 

 the following powders were the very best thing I could give : Take of pulv. 

 liquorice 1 lb., elecampane 1 lb,, pulv. fenugreek U lbs., pulv. gentain i lb., 

 pulv. anise seed :^ lb., ginger ^ lb., black antimony f lb., pulv. saltpetre ^ 

 lb., sulphur -^ lb., epsom salts 1 lb., pulv. resin I lb., hard wood ashes ^Ib., 

 copperas i lb. ; mix well, and give a tablespoonful three times a day at first, 

 and then only twice each day. 



Every horse that took the above powders recovered fully, and none were 

 troubled with the bad after-effects which followed many that received no 

 treatment. 



FARCY. — This is a scrofulous disease affecting the horse. 



St^mptoms — The hair looks rough and unhealthy; one of the legs will 

 generally swell to a very large size, generally the fore leg — hot and pain- 

 ful — and in a short time will break f)ut in small running sores, discharging 

 a thin, unhealthy fluid, and sometimes the discharge is thicker. 



